| Show n BIG CA VE IN AT MA MINE A Avalanche lanche of Rock and Timber Goes Crashing Thirteen to tile the Seventeen Level Miners Narrow Escape TO TIm S i Feb was f a great I hero here at the Mammoth mIne nt at atan an hour last evening that came near sending nine nino men to their deaths That time the escaped lS as th they did Is ac ac accounted COUlte counted for tor only b by the tho tact fact that nature warn warned them ot of the catastrophe that for tor the moment hung over them A As It was wal only one man wal J A Lindsy Lindsay who wa was conveyed to Sl Salt Lake by train this morning and taken to St Marks for tor treatment I JI lii consist ot of several serIous i fractures of the tho rIght leg and antl some 00 i is s severe er bodily bruises This Is 16 how the accident occurred A groat mais mass or of rock and n a mountaIn of on the teen toot foot level Th The fourteen hundred toot foot level struck with lh tr tn tore force and I it to too gave gaTo way o RI as Ild dId the fifteenth and sixteenth each Reh adding to the volume and velocity ot of the gut great avalanche until the seven seen seventeen teen hundred fot foot level leel was reche reached and where It ivan eight other miners were working between the sixteenth and In hundred toot foot levels and h ar and tel felt time tho avalanche tart start Instantly tl commenced I a hut hasty retreat rn run fling for or their le lives a as the rr ream ot of th the moving mass came coor closer and elOr closer 1 succeeded In getting to toa toa a l point tnt of oC laret safety except Lindsay who vh ivan behind his and amid who wan caugh caught Liy by the extreme outer ege edge oX ot the falling Umber timbers As 1 quickly as 08 possible albl squads ot of miners were put to work vork to te cue him Crom noun his perloU perilous position a la task k that occupied two hours houra ot of Indus trous and nd performed labon dangerous on of oC the liabIlIty of oC Another orth earth slide But Dut hl he was tn fIn fInally ni ally got out apparently more ded dead than alive and hoisted from the mine arid and made nH as comfortable all as possible or the th night b by Dr Br Minor nor who attended him bUn Time The slIde occurred In an abandoned or worked out vart ot of th the mint mine and was U cull caused by d decaying timbers at St Marks hospital thIs ateon afternoon disclosed th the tact fact that the fracture ot of leJ leg wc I und tn In I its character that an tt of the wi will doubtless 1 be made tl evening LIndsay Is 15 thirty years n 01 age and n a mn man or of family the accident o of the mine mains t tada a 1 stated that It did 0 nut not amount to n a Gat great deal and b being In a or abandoned ot of tho the minim it II would 11 no r me tarl tend ur or hinder operations I |
